{"id":13354,"date":"2019-07-24T06:51:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T06:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=13354"},"modified":"2019-07-24T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T06:51:10","slug":"fintech-bridging-usd-2-trillion-small-business-funding-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/fintech-bridging-usd-2-trillion-small-business-funding-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"FinTech bridging USD 2 trillion small business funding gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financing for small businesses is lacking throughout the world, even when ample funding is available and ready to be used. To close this USD 2 trillion funding gap, FinTech disruptors have set themselves up to play a key role by stepping in where traditional financial institutions and other investors won\u2019t. This is an important gap to fill as small businesses account for more than half of the world\u2019s GDP and two-thirds of all employment.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-13354 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='How digital banks are raising the bar for customer experience'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/how-digital-banks-are-raising-the-bar-for-customer-experience\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/great-isometric-user-experience_23-2147546971-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-10250\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/great-isometric-user-experience_23-2147546971-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/great-isometric-user-experience_23-2147546971-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/great-isometric-user-experience_23-2147546971.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-10250'>\n\t\t\t\tHow digital banks are raising the bar for customer experience\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='4 lessons financial institutions can learn from digital-centric companies'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/4-lessons-financial-institutions-can-learn-from-digital-centric-companies\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/4-lessons-financial-institutions-can-learn-from-digital-centric-companies-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-13522\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-13522'>\n\t\t\t\t4 lessons financial institutions can learn from digital-centric companies\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Video: central bank digital currency basics'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/video-central-bank-digital-currency-basics\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/What-is-CBDC-How-does-it-work-Whats-the-difference-between-it-and-Bitcoin-CBDC-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-15395\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-15395'>\n\t\t\t\tVideo: central bank digital currency basics\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financing for small businesses is lacking throughout the world, even when ample funding is available and ready to be used. To close this USD 2 trillion funding gap, FinTech disruptors have set themselves up to play a key role by stepping in where traditional financial institutions and other investors won\u2019t. This is an important gap &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[129,141,335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13355,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354\/revisions\/13355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}